What's the Most Unusual Item You've Ever Made?
11-10-2011, 04:43 PM
#381
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I made eye patches for my dgd. She had to wear an eye patch for her lazy eye for several hours every evening. Her mother had a hard time getting her to wear them. Always a fuss and fight to get there. I took one of the plain black patches she had bben given by the doctor and studied it and came up with patches in her favorite colors and charcters. No problem after that. She thought she was quite special when she wore them. Mama thanked me for helping.
11-10-2011, 05:04 PM
#382
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Location: Middle Tennessee
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I made enough "jockey silks" for the race track to pay for my first Janome. Also made some "saddle towels" or the colored saddle blankets used to breeze the horses in the morning to identify the horse and trainer for the track officials. the jockeys like the body suit shirts with snaps at the crotch as they don't have loose shirt tails in the home stretch.
11-10-2011, 05:05 PM
#383
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Location: Possum Trot, KY
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"Cat in the Hat" hat to put on a motorcycle helmet for a Christmas parade. DH was the "Cat" and needed his hat. It stayed on the whole parade. Also adapted Santa Hats to fit on helmets.
Have made Ninja turtle costumes complete with the shells for their back, bats with huge wingspans, red devils, gingham cats and others I can't recall.
Have made Ninja turtle costumes complete with the shells for their back, bats with huge wingspans, red devils, gingham cats and others I can't recall.
11-10-2011, 05:19 PM
#384
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Location: Georgia
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I made Bob and Larry costumes for my DD and DSIL. (Bob and Larry from Veggie Tales) I have made costumes through the years for my DDs. And I did some really strange stuff when I worked for a flower shop years ago.
11-10-2011, 05:49 PM
#386
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Location: AZ/Utah border
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Originally Posted by mombeth07 
My daughter works in hospital also. Some of the scrubs tech were wearing some and because they not sterile they told the workers not to wear them anymore.
once again, I repeat, the hats for the operating room nurses and scrub techs do NOT need to be sterile. Only the things that touch the patient, (unless they lay their head in the wound. . .). I am CNOR (Certified Nurse of the Operating Room), and I've made over 2500 hats in 3 different states!
The most unusual thing I've made recently was a carrier for a dutch oven - the kind that goes in the fire or coals. It had to be somthing that wouldn't burn, sturdy enough to carry, etc. They worked out really well.
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11-11-2011, 05:09 AM
#389
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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My son is a drywall finisher and painter. Made him a heavy canvas caddy with many, many different sized pockets with velcroed (is that a word???....well, it is now!) pocket flaps to hold his many tools that could be mounted on his scaffolding.
11-11-2011, 05:31 AM
#390
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Erie Pa.
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Back in the early 70's I was asked to make a sweeper cover w/ dress and hat that was a cow and add legs to it so she could set it on a bench in her hallway and be able to pull the dress knee high and cross it's legs. Turned out kinda cute, and then she wanted a crow done the same way.
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